>> reporter: well, there may be, and it's only being negotiated by two key members of congress, paul ryan -- the house committee budget chairman, republican -- and patty murray, the democratic senate committee person. and they've got a very, very busy calendar and an awful lot to do and not a lot of time. ryan and murray have until next friday the 13th, yes, you heard right, they're several imposed deadline, to come up with a one-year spending agreement to raids the spending cap under the so-called sequester law to a trillion bucks. if they don't have a deal in five weeks by jab 15th -- january 15th, the government will shut down again. the only other option is to continue. let's take a look at the graphic here. the only option they would have is to continue with do $967 billion that is in place right now for next year. the problem with that is it calls for $107 billion in mandatory across the board spending cuts that both parties want to avoid if they can. to reduce it, republicans want to cut the defense cuts from $17 billion in the plan down to just $3 billion next year while demo